In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...
The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 rose and fell last week. NASA's impact odds are now so slim that ...
NASA has selected SpaceX to launch its NEO Surveyor spacecraft, which will hunt for asteroids and comets that could pose a ...
In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...
Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football-field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.
With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...
New observations have dramatically reduced the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032, lowering the risk to ...
The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 ...